Crash causes traffic jam, second accident on 116

Traffic was closed along Illinois Route 116 for about an hour and a half Saturday night after a two-vehicle crash near Trivoli caused another crash that sent several people to a Peoria hospital.

Traffic was closed along Illinois Route 116 for about an hour and a half Saturday night after a two-vehicle crash near Trivoli caused another crash that sent several people to a Peoria hospital.

Christal L. Coons, 29, of 16296 Glasford-Canton Road in Glasford was driving her car north about 7:30 p.m. on Stone School Road when, according to reports, she "overshot" a stop sign at Route 116 and collided with a van driven by Fred D. Weaver, 72, of 518 Lakeshore Drive in Hanna City.

Coons's passenger, Sylvia Brownlee, 54, was taken to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, as was Fred Weaver and his passenger, Anne A. Weaver, 71. They were not listed as patients at the hospital by Sunday afternoon.

All were wearing their seat belts, a Peoria County Sheriff's report stated.

Coons was cited for disobeying a traffic control device and having no valid insurance.

A traffic backup as rescue crews assisted in that crash caused a second collision on Route 116, authorities said. Two people from that two-vehicle crash were also taken to St. Francis with nonlife-threatening injuries, though no further information on that crash was available Sunday.

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